Featured Insights
2026 Medicare Cancer Financial Burden Survey PowerPoint
This PowerPoint gives an overview of our findings for cancer patients experiencing financial burden in 2026. Click here to view the full presentation.
Designing Framework to Address
Non-Medical Needs in Oncology Care
We are excited to share the work of a truly unique collaboration between the Patient Advocate Foundation’s Patient Insight Institute, the Michigan Oncology Quality Consortium, or MOQC, and its Patient Caregiver Oncology Quality Council, or POQC. Together, we have been exploring ways to build a patient-centered approach to identifying cancer patients’ non-medical needs, like transportation challenges, housing instability, or financial hardship. Instead of developing tools behind closed doors, we involved people with lived experience in every step. We also collected data directly from oncology practices to ensure the framework would work in real clinical environments. The result is a more practical, compassionate, and patient-informed approach. Learn more here.
PQA 2026 Conference
Winning Poster
The objective of this research was to evaluate patient perspectives regarding social needs screening in clinical settings, assess comfort and stigma with disclosure, and examine outcomes following identification of needs, with specific relevance to pharmacy practice and medication management.
Stigmatizing Language in Care and Research
October 2023 — Stigmatizing language has the potential to undermine or invalidate a patient’s lived experiences. As a consequence, a patient may develop distrust towards their medical provider and/or feel uncomfortable participating in research. This report explores various terms, focusing in on patients’ feeling of the term “Financial Toxicity.”
